Books: Eskualdunak

BASQUE PEOPLE  Dorothy Canfield  Harcourt,
Brace ($2.50). Scholars
have vexed themselves in vain to demoot the question of the Basques.
Nobody knows for sure where they come from or what their queer language
is. (Scholars classify it as non-Aryan; can not explain its origin.)
Till the Basque tennis player Jean Borotra bounded on to U. S. sport
pages many people had never even heard of them. There is an ageless
Basque tradition, says Authoress Canfield, that Basque fishermen sailed
every sum mer to the Grand Banks of Newfound land, long before Columbus
"went too far and discovered America." Authoress...